George wrote:
On 9/8/2012 12:46 AM, David Kaye wrote:
"Oren" wrote


So why are you guys in a water war, demanding water from Nevada?

We're not demanding water from Nevada; maybe Los Angeles is because
they're sharing Colorado River water. But here in heathen San
Francisco, our water comes from the Hetch Hetchy valley of Yosemite.
Across the bay in socialist Berkeley, their water comes from the
Mokelumne, which is a bit to the north also in Yosemite.

Interesting notes about the Hetch Hetchy: (1) the water is so pure
it is one of the few municipal water supplies that the EPA does not
require to be filtered, (2) it was a socialist water system at a
time when nearly all water services were private companies. As
such, there was more government money spent to do it RIGHT than what
a private company would have spent. (3) The system is entirely
gravity-fed requiring NO pumping stations in the 200 mile length of
the system from Yosemite to San Francisco. (4) Hetch Hetchy also
provides extremely low-cost power to governments and some businesses
and households. Where I live we have Hetch Hetchy low-cost power.

The Hetch Hetchy is an engineering miracle that only socialist
planners could have done because private industry is too damned
cheap to do anything but the minimum required to satisfy their
stockholders.
Just like the governments interstate highway system where the bridges
and roads are all falling apart decades before they should have needed
repairs? In that case the politicians did their best to pander to the
voters. If they had enough funding to build 100 miles of road they
just spread it out a little thinner and impressed everyone with 125
miles of roadway.

More anti-government ravings?

Most of the interstate highway system was built in 1961-1970, so it is already
over 50 years old, and still, for the most part, operational. It is time to
replace aging structures, but you can hardly say that it has fallen apart
decades before it should have needed repairs. Expecially since usage has in many
cases gone way beyond conditions when it was built.